Inside Playoff Battles with Vernon Maxwell
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Hoops Adjacent, David Aldridge is joined by J.A. Adande and Vernon Maxwell to dive into what it is like competing in intense playoff series, the way role players can flip a series and how Maxwell would have handled the Jokic-Ishbia run-in in the Suns-Nuggets series.
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| 0:49.3 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:50.3 | It's another edition of Hoops of J. |
| 0:52.1 | On the Athletic NBA show, David Aldrich here in D.C. Marcus Thompson out with the Warriors trying to figure out how to get out of that 3-1 hole. So my man, Jay Adande, pinch hitting as only Jay can, the Vic Davileo of Northwestern University. Thank you for jumping. Mani Motor. I'm a dodger, guys, soi Motors. Mani motor. Jay, we had to have somebody that knew what the hell they were talking about when it comes to playoffs. My guy, I saw him at Salt. And somehow you were in Utah during a whole star weekend and got out alive. My man, Bernie Maxwell. What's up, Max? Hey, what's going on, guys? Thanks for having, man. Man, I was going to ask you, I didn't get a chance to ask you, man. When they invite, because you were doing stuff with the retired players association, you came back in and was with all the other guys. But, man, you knew it was in Salt Lake. Were you feeling some kind of way before getting on that play? |
| 1:45.0 | Before that, I thought, man, y'all got to have some damn security out there. |
| 1:49.5 | And, you know, because, you know, I've been getting death threats and all kind of shit. |
| 1:54.1 | So, you know, but they was like, no, Vern, you all right. |
| 1:57.7 | We're going to be in the team and the pleasure guys hotel. |
| 2:02.0 | We have security there. |
| 2:03.1 | You'll be fine, so don't worry about it. |
| 2:05.1 | But I felt protected once they told me that. |
| 2:08.3 | And then I had guys around me, too. |
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